laicise

Questions about laicise

What does laicise mean?

laicise means "reduce to lay status".

How many syllables are in laicise?

laicise has 2 syllables and divides as lai-cise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for laicise?

Close synonyms include laicize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laicise a common word?

laicise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.